Hostile Takeover: Christmas Edition: Naughty, nice... or just deliciously forbidden.

By Cara Ravelli

Holiday Collector's Edition
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A Psychological Dark Romance

For seven years, Lena Monroe has been the perfect wife. The perfect mother. A ghost haunting her own life.

She blends into routines and celebrations she no longer feels, pouring her darkest desires into a secret manuscript, convinced the woman on the page is the only version of herself that is truly alive.

Dr. Daniel Carter is a brilliant surgeon with a legacy in ruins and vengeance carved into his bones. His life was destroyed by one man. Lena's husband. Now he wants revenge, and he has found the perfect weapon. The beautiful, neglected wife who knows nothing of their shared, bloody history.

When a car crash puts Lena on Daniel's exam table, his plan is ruthless and precise. Seduce her. Use her. Burn her husband's world to the ground.

But when Daniel discovers her secret writings, pages inked with forbidden fantasies, he finds a darkness that mirrors his own. The pawn in his game becomes a dangerous, all-consuming obsession.

For Lena, Daniel's touch is an awakening. A brutal, intoxicating claiming that shatters every rule she has ever lived by. She thinks she has found the hero of her story.

She has no idea she is the final move in his.

Hostile Takeover is a psychological dark romance about obsession, revenge, and the fine line between control and surrender. It is a story of being seen, being owned, and the dangerous truth that sometimes the only man who can save you is the one who came to destroy you.

A forbidden contemporary romance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4CQ1QBX
• ISBN13: 9798276428888
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"